"It does not bother me any more now, but I still feel there should be a category of 'seniles' to offset the epithet." "For years it was a constant source of shock to me to find my writings amongst 'juveniles,'" Lofting reported. Lofting was married three times and had three children, one of whom, his son Christopher, is the executor of his literary estate. Seriously wounded in the war, he moved with his family to Connecticut in the United States. Not wishing to write to his children of the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative letters that were the foundation of the successful Doctor Dolittle novels for children.
He traveled widely as a civil engineer before enlisting in the Irish Guards to serve in World War I. His early education was at Mount St Mary's College in Sheffield, after which he went to the United States, completing a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lofting was born in Maidenhead, England, to English and Irish parents. Hugh Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle - one of the classics of children's literature.
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